Orson Scott Card Quotes
What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
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When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
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I feel more content with what I wear. I always feel confident. I shop for my age and my body.
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
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What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
